userCOOP@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (Wes Cooper) (01/29/91)
Is there something I can do, perhaps to my
WIN.INI file, to eliminate the *WINDOWS*
screen at the beginning of a Windows session?
Thanks,
Wes Coopersisu@ux1.lbl.gov (judy stirkkinen) (01/30/91)
In article <RN.94@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA> userCOOP@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (Wes Cooper) writes: >Is there something I can do, perhaps to my >WIN.INI file, to eliminate the *WINDOWS* >screen at the beginning of a Windows session? > Thanks, > Wes Cooper Yeah, you need to get your hands on a Hex editor and look through the "win.com" file for the word "LOGO". when you find it, replace one of the characters with something else. (ie: change the "L" to a "Z" or somethin'. Windows won't be able to find "ZOGO", so it'll bypass that part and start you off in the desktop. rob@cad4.lbl.gov
brian@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Brian Hoffman) (01/30/91)
In article <9361@dog.ee.lbl.gov> sisu@ux1.lbl.gov (judy stirkkinen) writes: >In article <RN.94@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA> userCOOP@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (Wes Cooper) writes: >>Is there something I can do, perhaps to my >>WIN.INI file, to eliminate the *WINDOWS* >>screen at the beginning of a Windows session? >> Thanks, >> Wes Cooper > >Yeah, you need to get your hands on a Hex editor and look through the "win.com" >file for the word "LOGO". when you find it, replace one of the characters with >something else. (ie: change the "L" to a "Z" or somethin'. Windows won't be >able to find "ZOGO", so it'll bypass that part and start you off in the >desktop. > rob@cad4.lbl.gov Or you could just type "win :". That will do it. |Brian Hoffman | |brian@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu | |Quote: "Here comes the quiet life, again" -- Japan |
tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones) (01/30/91)
By far the nicest approach is to set the startup to something YOU want using tools like PaintBrush (provided with Windows) and WINGIF (shareware). Make a new vgalogo.rle (make as BMP and convert to RLE) then load a different video driver (eg VGAMONO) then the proper driver (VGA) and it remakes WIN.COM to include the new logo. tj
goodearl@world.std.com (Robert Goodearl) (01/30/91)
To start windows without the opening Microsoft logo screen, simply type win : -- Bob Goodearl -- goodearl@world.std.com
mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord) (01/31/91)
In article <RN.94@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA> userCOOP@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (Wes Cooper) writes: <Is there something I can do, perhaps to my <WIN.INI file, to eliminate the *WINDOWS* <screen at the beginning of a Windows session? Yeah.. end the WIN line with a colon, as in: WIN : -- ___Mark S. Lord__________________________________________ | ..uunet!bnrgate!mlord%bmerh724 | Climb Free Or Die (NH) | | MLORD@BNR.CA Ottawa, Ontario | Personal views only. | |________________________________|________________________|
cms2839@isc.rit.edu (C.M. Stuntz ) (01/31/91)
In article <RN.94@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA> userCOOP@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (Wes Cooper) writes: >Is there something I can do, perhaps to my >WIN.INI file, to eliminate the *WINDOWS* >screen at the beginning of a Windows session? win : -- @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ "Imagination keeps the shadows away - Xymox @ @~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~@ @ a.stranger - CMS2839@ritvax.isc.rit.edu @
altman@sbstaff2.cs.sunysb.edu (Jeff Altman) (01/31/91)
In your System directory there is a file which is called WIN.CNF rename your current WIN.COM file to something like WIN_OLD.COM and then copy the WIN.CNF file from the system directory to WIN.COM in the WINDOWS directory. This will allow you to not have an opening screen. The opening screen is added to the WIN.CNF file via a binary copy during the Setup process. This allows the proper Startup screen (*.RLE) from the system directory to be added for the video board which you have. You can also use this method to add any small RLE4 formatted file with the proper resolution (no more than 16 color) to use as a startup screen. I believe the limit is about 55k for the startup screen file. COPY WIN.CNF /B + startup.rle /B WIN.COM -- - Jeff (jaltman@ccmail.sunysb.edu)
altman@sbstaff2.cs.sunysb.edu (Jeff Altman) (01/31/91)
> >COPY WIN.CNF /B + startup.rle /B WIN.COM > This should actually be : COPY WIN.CNF /B + [ev]galogo.lgo /B + startup.rle /B WIN.COM -- - Jeff (jaltman@ccmail.sunysb.edu)
gkrone@pcserver2.naitc.com (Gary Krone) (02/01/91)
In article <1991Jan30.020155.16281@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> brian@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Brian Hoffman) writes: >In article <9361@dog.ee.lbl.gov> sisu@ux1.lbl.gov (judy stirkkinen) writes: >>In article <RN.94@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA> userCOOP@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (Wes Cooper) writes: >>>Is there something I can do, perhaps to my >>>WIN.INI file, to eliminate the *WINDOWS* >>>screen at the beginning of a Windows session? >>> Thanks, >>> Wes Cooper >> >>Yeah, you need to get your hands on a Hex editor and look through the "win.com" >>file for the word "LOGO". when you find it, replace one of the characters with >>something else. (ie: change the "L" to a "Z" or somethin'. Windows won't be >>able to find "ZOGO", so it'll bypass that part and start you off in the >>desktop. >> rob@cad4.lbl.gov > > >Or you could just type "win :". That will do it. > > > > >|Brian Hoffman | >|brian@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu | >|Quote: "Here comes the quiet life, again" -- Japan | I tried the colon trick and ran into some memory problems. Restarting without the colon cleared them up. Gary Krone gkrone@bbs.naitc.com
richards@la.excelan.com (Richard Schneider) (02/01/91)
In article <RN.94@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA> userCOOP@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (Wes Cooper) writes: >Is there something I can do, perhaps to my >WIN.INI file, to eliminate the *WINDOWS* >screen at the beginning of a Windows session? > Thanks, > Wes Cooper I have created a start up bat file that does this for me. I call it win.bat. It looks like the following: @echo off win : Yes thats all it takes. +=====================+===========================================+ | richards@novell.com | FUN is never having to say you're SUSHI!! | | Richard Schneider +===========================================+ | 2180 Fortune Dr. | | San Jose, CA 95131 | | 408-473-8480 | +=====================+